The wind blows the waves, and the hundred years of peering. On January 7, 2022, the 8th Gulangyu Poetry Festival was launched. As a classic case in the Chinese poetry industry, this year's poetry festival pioneered the combination of the online "Cloud Poetry Festival" and local poetry cultural activities, with the participation of hundreds of well-known poets, poetry critics and thousands of "love poets", forming a fresh and vivid cultural scene.
This year's Gulangyu Poetry Festival is guided by the Chinese Writers Association and the Xiamen Municipal People's Government, sponsored by the Xiamen Gulangyu Management Committee, the Chinese Poetry Society, the Xiamen Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, and hosted by the Xiamen Gulangyu Cultural Tourism Center and phoenix satellite TV Lingke Culture. This year, the poetry festival "real-time online", the online duration will be up to 3 months, not only to hold the original poetry recitation evening, poetry academic seminar and excavate the local culture of the "Xiamen Poetry Geography", but also to link up with a number of institutions of higher learning and global netizens, the same time to carry out the cloud poetry festival, including "cloud in the note" youth poetry collection, "dialogue in the cloud", "famous artists talk about poetry", "famous artists read poetry", "netizens read poetry" and other five major sections.
Gulang poetry style is far away Rich poetry activities are inherited in the local context
"The sea around Gulangyu Island is vast, and the sea is bulging with waves." On the evening of January 7th, on the stage of Gulangyu Concert Hall, a piano and a Chinese drum formed a horn, opening the curtain of the original poetry recitation with a powerful impact. They are one in the middle and one in the west, one yin and one yang, alluding to the history of the combination of East and West in Gulangyu Island.
Gulangyu Island, "Piano Island", "International Architecture Expo", "Historical International Community", "World Cultural Heritage Site".
This sea garden is full of literary heroes and poetry. At the opening party, several Gulangyu people of different eras "met" with the audience during the poetry recitation: Lu Shuzhang, who pioneered the new characters of cutting sounds, Yu John, a Dutch-American medical missionary fluent in Minnan dialect, Lin Yutang, a literary master of "Gulangyu's lover and son-in-law", Lin Qiaozhi, the "mother of ten thousand babies" who has made great contributions to Chinese obstetrics and gynecology, Li Shutong, a master who hugs the moon color of Gulangyu Island, Hu Youyi, the "founder" of the Gulangyu Piano Museum and organ museum, and Zhong Nanshan, winner of the "Order of the Republic", with "The Waves of Gulangyu Island" The adaptation of the "variations" of the model is like a silk thread, connecting the dialogue and symbolic images of the mimetic poetry. Liu Changchun, a national actor who has participated in many film and television works such as "The Gate of the Great House" and "Railway Guerrilla", led the recitation, and nearly 60 actors performed together. Poetry, tides, and waves intertwine, and the Gulangyu Concert Hall has become an immersive theater, and poetry blooms with huge emotional energy.
When Mr. Yin Chengzong, a famous pianist in China, appeared on the stage, the concert hall burst into applause. He wrote and premiered the world-famous piano concerto "Yellow River", and he was the "son of music" who went from Gulangyu Island to the world.
Shu Ting, Pompey, Lin Xiumei, Chen Dongdong and other poets and islanders from all over the country spent the night of poetry together. Poets lament that the existence of Gulangyu Island is like a poem.
In the evening, one of the most influential poetry awards in China, the "Rougang Poetry Award", held an award ceremony. After two rounds of selection by the jury, the 29th Rougang Poetry Award Special Honorary Award was awarded to Mr. Xie Mian, professor of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, the main prize of the Rougang Poetry Award was won by the poet Sun Wenbo, and Wang Jiaming won the Campus Award.
According to the Management Committee of Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, the Gulangyu Poetry Festival is a characteristic cultural activity of Gulangyu Island, which has influenced generations of poets and poetry lovers. On January 8, the seminar on "Research on the Synthesis of Modern Poetic Elements" presented the latest academic achievements, and dozens of Xiamen poets jointly created the "Xiamen Poetry Geography" session, showing the intrinsic connection between poetry and geographical context. On January 9th, the "Poetry Xiamen, Culture Xiamen" New Year Poetry Festival was held, integrating poetry recitation, performance, theme music and talents.
This year's poetry festival also has a special guest, "Little Buling", which has already begun to interact with everyone. This AI genie developed by the artificial intelligence team of Chinese Min University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications is agile and cute. As long as you upload your favorite picture, Bouling will pick out the most tacit ancient poems and create a poem with an inscription to send to the user. The Gulangyu Poetry Festival explores how humanities and technology interact, and is also intended to inspire the younger generation to love Chinese poetry.
Looking at the world, the landmark cultural activities that have been insisted on for a long time can continue the cultural context and let the local culture grow organically. Gulangyu Island, a world cultural heritage site, has a deep accumulation and is attracting the attention of the world with its poetic habitat.
Using poetry as a medium of communication, poets and scholars "meet in the clouds"
Poetry has a dazzling position in the temple of world literature, and China is a well-deserved country of poetry. In the long volume of Chinese civilization's five-thousand-year culture, poetry has a history of more than three thousand years, and it is a romantic encounter between our national language and national emotions. Poetry not only overlaps with the pursuit of each of our lives, but is also closely related to the course of Chinese history.
"Poetry is my faith, my spiritual sustenance." This year, the Gulangyu Poetry Festival and the winner of the Special Honorary Award of the 29th Rougang Poetry Award, Professor Xie Mian of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, conducted a "Dialogue in the Clouds". Xie Mian said that the new Chinese poetry for a hundred years and the history of Chinese poetry for a thousand years are connected, and new poetry must obtain nourishment from the old poetry. In addition, Xie Mian suggested that we should vigorously recommend outstanding contemporary poets and poems so that more people can read and appreciate them. In the 1980s, Xie Mian wrote an article entitled "In the Face of New Rise", affirming the novelty of "obscure poetry" and welcoming another youth in Chinese poetry. "Obscure Poetry" has a unique connection with Gulangyu Island, and it is here that "Obscure School" represents the poet Shu Ting's "To the Oak Tree", which has become the most well-known and beloved contemporary poem.
Mrs. Zhang Tong, the designer of the national emblem of the Republic, and the 94-year-old poet Gray Baby, participated in the "Cloud Poetry Festival" with full enthusiasm, saying, "The state of writing poetry has a wonderful enjoyment that is not found in the world." In the view of the poet and poetry critic Tang Xiaodu, the poetry festival is a ritual, and the exchange of poets produces a spark of ideas, because "poetry is a language we have to resort to."
More than fifty contemporary poets, including Munch, have read personal poems or favorite works online. The public felt the profound emotions of the poet and enjoyed the artistic conception of the poem. In order to let more loving poets be seen, read and listened to in the "clouds", this year's Gulangyu Poetry Festival has created a date beyond physical distance through "netizens reading poetry". Beijing, Shanghai, Fujian, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Jiangxi and other provinces and cities of domestic netizens, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Luxembourg and other international netizens and overseas Chinese overseas Chinese, over the air to convey "poetry". Medical workers who participate in the fight against the epidemic, retired teachers who love literature, white-collar workers who are small and fresh in small literature and art, yunnan public welfare teachers, and even artificial intelligence scientists all express their poetry in different languages.
Teenagers are playing a fresher role in this year's poetry festival. Through their original poems, they responded to the "notes in the clouds" sent by the poetry festival. As an important section of this poetry festival, the collection of original poems for teenagers is still ongoing. In late January, the expert jury will appreciate all the poems from the clouds, and in late January, they will select 1 Grand Jury Prize, 2 Poetry Awards, 3 Creative Awards and 10 Radiance Awards. The winner of the highest prize will receive round-trip airfare and free hotel accommodation for a poetic journey to Gulangyu Island.
"Poetry is not only a telling story in the literal sense, but also a cultural medium for mutual communication in the era of media integration." The 8th Gulangyu Poetry Festival adheres to this cultural stance, and the poetry of Gulangyu Island is always accompanied by the sea breeze.